Momus/Herc Momus/Pasithea and out of curiosity Momus/Morpheus because I’m testing to see if I vibe with that too lmao

Momus/Heracles: What made you ship it? I’d seen info about Momus and Oizys pretty early on into being in the Hades fandom and knew I wanted to make them into OCs at some point. When I was planning that Theseus fic, Heracles seemed like a good villain for both Theseus and Zagreus, so then I was left wondering who I could use as foil for Heracles, since there’d probably be scenes where I’d need him to talk independently of the main three. And I mean, I could’ve drawn something from actual Heracles lore, but then I remembered Momus and figured that, since Heracles is the most celebrated (and generally known, I guess?) Greek hero, that it’d be funny to team him up with someone who’s absolutely unimpressed with everything he does. But then like, is also secretly in love with him, because who doesn’t like that dynamic? So, that’s why they exist haha What are your favorite things about the ship? They just instantly have chemistry. I wasn’t expecting them to resonate with folks as strongly as they did (though I’m very glad that they do!), but I think they’re just that kind of ship that clicks together. They both might be awful, but it’s fun to hate them and it’s very easy to get invested in them on a “they deserve each other” level, that could also become something deeper than that. Also, we’re evil queers, so there’s something empowering about this tiny, smug, noodle man wrapping a giant oaf around his little finger. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship? This is only an unpopular opinion with Momus himself, but I think Heracles tops more than Momus admits to. Momus/Pasithea: What made you ship it? It was specifically that one part you wrote about how Pasithea enjoys going to bad plays with Momus and laughing at the actors, even if she feels guilty about it. I know that was to establish their friendship, but I feel like that was the start of Pasithea realising that she doesn’t have to be this nice person she’s always been expected to be, which in turn led to these two seeming shippable. What are your favorite things about the ship? Expanding on the above, I just like that Momus brings out this other side to Pasithea. She seems a lot more sure of herself when she’s around Momus compared to some of the earlier characters we teamed her up with. Hell, Momus went, “Hey, uh, some of us are getting together to stick it to Olympus” and then Pasithea jumped in like, “This is the revolution!! This is what we’re gonna do!!” So I like Momus being the catalyst that sets Pasithea off. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship? I actually don’t think Pasithea has caused Momus to have a bisexual panic. Just from the way he’s acted, I feel like he actually figured out he’s bi some time ago (although he clearly still thinks he’s gay in the flashbacks). Momus/Morpheus: What made you ship it? I mean, they’re Boney and Kazuko, which has always been the forbidden fruit. They’ve both spiralled off into being less like the OCs we originally based them on now, but that was what got me interested in their relationship in the first place. What are your favorite things about the ship? When we started, I expected their relationship would be more that Morpheus flatly calls out Momus’s bullshit, which would also have been fine. But I like that they just kind of talk to each other. Morpheus is blunt and intuitive, but he likes Momus a lot, which I wasn’t expecting. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship? I actually expected that these two would be the ones to hook up when we started writing them, because they seemed like the most obvious choice. So, Momus/Pasithea and Morpheus/Zagreus took me by surprise, but I’m also not opposed to cycling back to Momus/Morpheus now that Morpheus & Zagreus have shifted to an open relationship.

Hey John! Have you been keeping up with ouat? I stopped watching right before rumple has really short hair? What's happened since?

this is gonna be long erin i’m so sorry 

-sucks in a breath-

So S5 ended with Belle putting herself in a sleeping curse so Rumple could save their baby. He does, and when he get back to storybrooke he takes Hades’ magic crystal and takes the magic from Storybrooke so he can try to wake her. He goes to new york, henry and violet and emma and regina chase him because wanting to wake your pregnant wife is TOTES EVIL GAIS so Snow tells the new villain, Mr. Hyde, that Rumple’s trying to wake his pregnant wife so Hyde steals her and they have to go to the land of untold stories to get her back

s6 starts with rumple getting her back and he goes to “Morpheus”, god of dreams, to wake her. but in the dream, when he’s trying to ease belle’s nightmares and wake her, “Morpheus” reveals himself to be their son all grown up somehow even though he’s a fetus inside belle and now belle is mad at rumple for tricking her when he DIDNT FUCKING DO ANYTHING and so her unborn fetus kisses her and she wakes up and she storms back to storybrooke because reasons apparently.

Anyway she breaks up with rumple AGAIN - they’re married, I want to point out - and goes to stay on the jolly roger because living with the man who tried to kill you three times is apparently better than living with your husband who hasn;’t done ANYTHING wrong in a whole season but what the fuck ever right? anyway hyde is loose and rumple puts a spell on the boat to protect belle and keep the bad guys out but SURPRISE Dr Jekyll is the real bad guy and he was??? already on the boat??? so Hyde uses the dagger to force rumple to stand around useless as Jekyll tries to kill belle

and Captain Rape Bro gets to save her because this show can’t do a fucking thing without trying to paint Admitted Serial Killer and Drunk Captain Hook in a good light

rumple can’t like. look himself in the eyes in a mirror. so he cuts his hair because bob had to cut it for Trainspotting 2 and all their wigs were terrible and could not capture the majesty of the floof

so Belle yells terrible things at rumple for using the spell on the boat and says he cut his hair??? for her??? when no he did it because he hates himself you’ve known him for like a hundred years belle wtf and rumple gets mad and says yeah you’ll only be with me when you need me for something and they stay apart

Belle, throughout the next half season arc, continues to fucking come by rumple’s shop just to insult him. meanwhile regina drinks the potion to separate her and the evil queen just like hyde and jekyll did so the EQ is just. free. because lana is amazing and they wanted two of her. so, fuck yeah for that. but the EQ wants to jump Rumple’s bones even though they’ve NEVER had that sort of relationship and it was always mentor/student - you know, because rumple was in love with C O R A. Her MOM. 

anyway eq is like hey look we can speed up the pregnancy and rumple’s like alright and she kisses him a bunch and he goes to see belle but he doesn’t use the potion. belle uses the ‘IF YOU DO THIS WE’LL NEVER GET BACK TOGETHER’ line she’s been using since s5 because nothing says true love like literal emotional manipulation

so rumple dumps the eq 

there’s like some shears that can cut the strands of fate??? rumple wanted to use them to free their son from any ties to the darkness(tm) but hook gets a hold of them and rumple has decided that was dumb anyway

Belle refuses to let rumple anywhere near her or the child so when the EQ speeds up her pregnancy- which she blames rumple for, ugh - she gives baby Gideon to the Shady Blue Fairy.

Who gets beat up.

The baby is taken by the black fairy, rumple’s mum, and like taken to a land where he’s aged up into an emo brat

and again, belle blames rumple for this

also emma has dreams about a cloaked figure killing her and she thinks it’s regina but she’s also super anxious because OH NO SHE WANTS TO BE HOOK’S HAPPY ENDING BECAUSE HE DESERVES ONE AND SHE WANTS TO GIVE HIM BABIES TO MAKE HIM HAPPY and Archie is like “fuck this y’all need Jaybus they don’t pay me enough for this shit”

Anyway the figure turns out to be Gideon who wants to be the saviour.... because???

for some stupid reason Snowing is cursed so one half of them is always a sleep i think the EQ did that i don’t know

anyway the EQ gets ahold of... the lamp? something? and makes a wish that emma gets put in like her perfect world so she’s put into a wish realm where she’s a princess and she married Bae but he died and her parents are still the rulers and it’s kinda cute but Regina follows her in and pretends to be the EQ so she can wake emma up and she does!

Also hook’s old and grey and has a huge beer gut and it revitalized me

So emma and regina are gonna go home but then! LO! A ROBIN HOOD!

robin’s not even a hero anymore he’s just a fuckin layabout thief

in a Gay Panic(tm) regina’s like eeeeyyyyy come home with us bc i can’t exist without a white man in my life apparently and they have to go find pinnochio who’s still a shifty bastard and they go through a tree wardrobe back to storybrooke because fuck continuity 

and now gideon is back and he’s emoing all over storybrooke and there’s sexual tension between him and rumple ‘cause he blames rumple even though rumple didn’t do??? a fucking thing??? and rumple’s like ‘fine then punish me’ chicka bow but gideon’s dead set on becoming the saviour so prances about in his voldemort cloak and belle’s like ‘shit we messed up’ and i’m like ‘YOU messed up miss gold but whatever’ and they seem to be bonding but we all know adam and eddy hate the rumbelle fandom so  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ who knows

and that’s about where we are right now, s6 is still airing and it’s bad